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To be fair to the time, in 1999, there was the dot-com bubble going on and a lot of students were going into CS for the wrong reasons so there could have been m
by imack 17y ago
To be fair to the time, in 1999, there was the dot-com bubble going on and a lot of students were going into CS for the wrong reasons so there could have been more at play than government objectives. I suspect there were a lot of CS students who did not enjoy programming in such programs, thus accounting for seniors who couldn't do projects. I know CS and programming are not the same, but I liken it to studying Shakespeare and not enjoying reading or writing.
Our school (UWaterloo) noticed a huge drop in CS enrollment soon after that, between 2002 and 2004 (roughly). At which point business programs saw a spike in enrollment. I wonder if this professor had stuck around whether he would have noticed an improvement once the stories of 24 year old billionaires were removed from the headlines.
- karanbhangui 17y agow00t for UW (CEng student here). pew pew.
- christofd 17y agopew pew. we have lazerz :)
- christofd 17y agono, you guys don't get the background story, regarding University of Waterloo's new logo.
- karanbhangui 17y agoseconded.
- Locke1689 17y agoI am an American, so forgive me, but I was under the impression that UWaterloo was also regarded as one of, if not the best, CS schools in Canada. I would argue that many of the more elite universities have managed to beat back this trend for the most part, as I do not believe that Stanford or MIT are graduating substandard computer science students.
- 0wned 17y agoI agree with this statement. Other schools (perhaps not as highly regarded as the ones you mentioned) such as Texas A&M do hardcore, low-level C++ courses, compiler stuff, etc. for both CS and CE students as core requirements. They lightened the requirements several years back to compete with other schools, but changed back to them when they realized how soft their students had become. Of course, Bjarne Stroustrup is the chair of the CoE CS program at TAMU... so that may have a lot to do with it.